How To Install Nessus On Linux

Automatic vulnerability scanning tools has a great importance in the field of penetration testing/ethical hacking, professional use different tools for different environment. Now in this post we will discuss about network vulnerability scanning tool and that is nessus, you can find a lot of different article about nessus on the Internet but we will discuss from scratch about nessus.

Nessus has been developed by Tenable network security, it is available for free of cost for non-enterprise environment means for home user. It is a network vulnerability scanner and use for finding the critical bugs on a system, it can detect a vulnerabilities like:

Misconfiguration or unpatched services.

Default passwords and common passwords, in general weak passwords.

Available vulnerabilities on the system.

It is available for different operating system, now how to install nessus on ubuntu and other linux follow the steps below.